Thanks for the good answers, Martin. Being the quantitative type, I
would mention:
Of the desert regions of the world, a rough indicator where stones can
be found more readily for the reasons already mentioned,
Approximately 60% of the world's deserts are polar-tundra/ice types
Of the
Hello List
I like to post a Happy Birthday to Harvey Harlow Ninginger born January 17
1887, pass away March 1 1986.
The Father of Meteorite Hunting.
Hope you many of you in Tucson.
Thanks for your time.
Keith
Chandler AZ
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Mike, this some secrets, because you started.
Have you had any money when you started visitting Morocco? no, you were a
slave, Jim, Greg, Adam ... and others give you the money to buy for them, you
found us we have no informations about meteorites and you buy lunars, martians,
comon
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humhem,
don't want to sound cheekily, but the fall of a new meteorite is a joyful
event and not a calamity or a disgrace..
Isn't it?
Well, can't understand the public poison in that debate about the new fall,
just a little patience and then we'll see, what had happened, what has been
found ect.
Good Points Martin. I can not wait to see photos of the area where this
meteorite fell. The Atlas Mountans sound like an exotic location for a new
fall.
Don Rawlings
--- On Sat, 1/17/09, Martin Altmann altm...@meteorite-martin.de wrote:
From: Martin Altmann altm...@meteorite-martin.de
matt wrote;
For the record, I have 3 Moroccan sources that I trust. Enough to wire 10s of
thousands to them. Each has said that this IS a new fall, quantities are
small (open to interpretation). I would assume that means under 40kg for
Moroccans. If they are making up stories then my business
Thanks for the insight Aziz. I think that we are all anxiously awaiting photos
of this meteorite more than anything.
I know that you will forward high quality photos to the list as soon as you can
like you always do.
For my money, the most important thing will be how fresh and unbroken the
I'd like to second the recognition of Dr. Nininger's birthday. He
was a great educator on the subject of meteorites.
Mike in CO
On Jan 17, 2009, at 2:47 AM, Arizona Keith wrote:
Hello List
I like to post a Happy Birthday to Harvey Harlow Ninginger born
January 17 1887, pass away March 1
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Listoids,
Today I was lucky to see 2 1/2 kilos of the New Fall Tichka.
Indeed, as mentioned before, these are only fragments, some with crust, most
without.
They also are indeed a bit weathered but not worth to mention though. I'll
try to post some pics later on.
I really can't tell is this
Hi Ryan -
While among collectors falls fetch a premium, as they have a certain brand
name, I don't know if this will turn out to be true in the long run,
except for the most famous falls.
As to why falls should be seen in NWA, the innocent explanation would be
clear skies, lack of ground
Hi Dirk-
I have some information about building allsky meteor cameras at
http://www.cloudbait.com/projects/allskycamera.html
Look it over. I'm happy to talk about this stuff here, over on the meteorobs
list, or privately.
Chris
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Chris L Peterson
Hi Doug, all,
Thanks for the update. I hope as well that the confusion over Arecibo
operations will come to an end with Griffin's departure, in as much as one name
mentioned for NASA Adminstrator, Gration, worked with Pete Worden.
I assume the Chinese data came from Purple Mountain, and am
Hi Ryan,
it's because of the iron mountain in Atlas, which still has to be found and
which attracts with his magnetic field all iron-bearing lumps from space.
No. Take a World map, hold little Europe (forget a little bit about
Scandinavia),
hold it against that NWA region, Algeria, Mali, Niger,
Highly estimated Martin,
you forgot to mention the source:
1001 meteorites
M.B.
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Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2009 9:37 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Northwest Africa Falls
Dear List members,
We have added some fragments of the new Moroccan fall on eBay.
Please see our eBay store: http://stores.ebay.com/Meteoritica
Thanks for looking,
Philippe Léa
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Ok, now I am more confused by your ebay auction page.
You state that a small crater was formed, but a 35 kilo stone will not form a
small crater. If it smashed against the rocks, then there would be no crater of
any kind, as a 35 kilo stone would just turn to fragments and perhaps make a
mark
Hi List,
I hope to be bringing a few hundred grams of oriented Wiluna H5 meteorites
to Tucson.
They all have export permission. They range in size from 2gms to 40gms.
If anyone is interested, please contact me off list and I will arrange to
meet you in Tucson.
Regards,
Frank Cheshire
Mike,
As you say my English is not perfect.
In French a crater (cratère) is a hole made by a meteorite even when it is very
small.
In this statement, I wanted to say that one of the two meteorites was found in
a hole.
The second meteorite hit a rocky wall which broke the stone in numerous
Martin and list,
Actually, there is something suspicious. Northwest Africa (the
countries you listed plus Western Sahara and Tunisia) has seen between 0
and 3 falls per decade from the 1900s through the 1980s. The 1990s saw
6, and the 2000s have now got 8. There is no parallel increase in
Greetings List,
In honor of Dr. Nininger's Birthday.
--AL
Dr. Nininger was good at both presenting information on his numerous talks
throughout central and western United States and also at hunting them. He
would sometimes stop in at a local restaurant for a bite to eat and would
lay
In light of recent topics including the 'new' Moroccan fall, I would like to
request some information about determining the terrestrial age of 'fresh'
meteorites. Specifically, the process involved using gamma-spectroscopy and
the accuracy of results on meteorites.
I'm sure others on the list
It is interesting, but I really think that the same amount of falls are
happening elsewhere, but Africa is a hodgepodge of wars and problems, and
meteorite falls are likely mostly ignored or just lost in the noise of Africa's
various crisis.
It can not be denied that these falls are real,
Greater awareness, less vegetation, higher population growth, less TV-sets
and worse programs, the grown mineral and fossils market/prospecting, darker
nights...
Who knows.
I wanted to say only to Ryan, that the number of recovered falls per surface
size isn't that out of the probability.
Interesting debate. Reminds me on the good old days of the Acedemie
Francaise, the days before Biot and Chladni, where scientists doubted the
accounts of local eyewitnesses on rocks falling from the skies for
sociological reasons.
As far as I am concerned, I still trust the people who
Jan. 15, 2009
Dwayne Brown
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1726
dwayne.c.br...@nasa.gov
Nancy Neal-Jones/Bill Steigerwald
Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.
301-286-0039/5017
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DISCOVERY OF METHANE
It’s been a long time since I posted anything to this list, having
stopped collecting meteorites back in May 2005, but I still receive the
digests and read them with interest.
Since then, my collection has been packed away and stored in my den
closet….a horrible waste of these important
http://www.expressen.se/
HOLY SHIT!
I just got a panicked call from a friend of mine in Sweden that a massive
fireball was seen from near Kvarnby (near Malmo) and caught on camera at ~0800
this morning. It was toward the North Sea, likely impact in North Sea or
Denmark near Copenhagen. This
Hi all,
Does anyone have coordinates (or better yet, a star chart image) of where
this asteroid is located?
Thanks,
Bob
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Hi Bob,
Your e-mails keep bouncing back, so I am replying here.
I am selling these meteorites on behalf of the owner, therefore do not have
a very good mark-up.
I have them for sale on our website at AUD$10 per gram for nice oriented
ones.
Depending on the quantity required, I can reduce the
Hi List. I have several Auctions ending in the coming days for those
interested in Rare Meteorite Stamps or Meteorite/Space Coins.
http://shop.ebay.com/merchant/emflocater
Thank you
Sincerely
Don Merchant
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If you're on this list please contact me at bobad...@ec.rr.com
If anyone knows Al please let him know I would like him to contact me.
Thanks
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Mike/All,
I'd be interested in learning more about this as well. It's too late
tonight, but I think Svend has some understanding of this process. He
commissioned the classification of Noktat Addagmar
(http://www.fallingrocks.com/Collections/NoktatAddagmar.htm), which came
back with a terrestrial
Dear List,
You can read and view videos about the bolide (fireball) in Sweden at this
new site:
http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.com/
Dirk Ross...Tokyo
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Dear Friends,
For an unknown period of time free PDF files of papers
published in Geology and Geological Society of America
Bulletin can be downloaded free of charge. A person can
access them using the search page at:
http://gsabulletin.gsapubs.org/search.dtl
and the archive pages at:
According to the online Met Bulletin, Havana Illinois (Iron, IAB complex),
was found in the year -300.
I am currently researching falls in Illinois and Florida, and I ran
across this goofy typographical error. Or is there some other reason
for this oddball date?
On Sat, 17 Jan 2009 20:18:13 -0800 (PST), you wrote:
According to the online Met Bulletin, Havana Illinois (Iron, IAB complex),
was found in the year -300.
Yes, that meteorite was found by famous paleoindian meteorite hunter Grows
Sticks for Talking.
Hi,
According to what I have read the date is correct. 22 rounded
bead-like objects of strongly oxidized meteoritic iron were found in an
Indian burial mound. The material was worked by Indians of the Hopewellian
culture into a number of ornamental beads, R.M.Grogan, American Antiquity,
Hi Peter,
So I take it the -300 means 300BC?
I wonder why they just didn't put that in the bulletin? I figured
that's what it meant, but I wasn't 100% sure.
Thanks and clear skies,
MikeG
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Michael Gilmer (Louisiana, USA)
Member of the
Yes, the date is 300 B.C.
It is probably entered the way it is to aid in chronological sorting. But
that is just my guess.
peter
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Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2009 11:41 PM
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Cc:
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Michael Johnson
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For some reason, auctions from a site are showing up on Google news results now.
Here's one of them that came up, worth looking at for the photo of this nice
lunite slice:
http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/6125349
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